
Xenophon candidate ousts Briggs in Mayo
Nick Xenophon is accustomed to making electoral history, but he has written a new chapter in 2016 with his fledgling party snaring a maiden lower house seat.
Nick Xenophon is accustomed to making electoral history, but he has written a new chapter in 2016 with his fledgling party snaring a maiden lower house seat.
The re-election of Jamie Briggs in the South Australian seat of Mayo is crucial to the Coalition’s return to government, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull stressed as he campaigned in the Adelaide Hills today.
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The battle for the hills and coastal seat of Mayo will be a three-cornered contest, with government-owned shipbuilder ASC relenting to facilitate employee Glen Dallimore’s candidacy for the ALP.
The Labor Party’s preferred candidate in the vulnerable seat of Mayo is taking his employer – Adelaide shipbuilder ASC – to the Fair Work Commission because it won’t allow him leave to contest the federal election, InDaily can reveal.
Malcolm Turnbull has rejected suggestions he has downgraded cities policy in his ministry reshuffle.
The journalist Immigration Minister Peter Dutton dubbed a “witch” in a message he accidentally sent her says it was a “solid sledge”, but has accepted his apology.